Jonathan Rouse is the director and principal consultant of HED Consulting. He has ten years of research, training and project management experience, much of which has been spent in developing countries. He is also a widely-published author.
Jonathan has an academic background in applied physics (BSc) and rural development (MA). He began his career in India in 2000, where he designed and managed a small village-based improved stove project. The failure of this project brought into focus the challenges of designing efficient, clean-burning, desirable stoves. It also motivated Jonathan to focus on understanding (and helping others understand) how to assess user needs using participatory techniques, overcome barriers to widespread adoption, and measure impacts using appropriate scientific methods.
In 2005 Jonathan was seconded to the World Health Organisation where he developed the Catalogue of Methods, which consolidates and tries to demystify monitoring and evaluation tools for household energy. More recently he has worked with JP Morgan Climate Care on CDM/ Gold Standard baseline and biomass renewability studies for stove programmes in South Asia and East Africa. He is presently working as a consultant to the World Bank IAP program in Bangladesh, and on programmes in India, Kenya and Madagascar with Berkeley Air and Practical Action.
Jonathan is based in the UK. Away from his laptop he works on his organic smallholding and chops wood for cooking and heating in his home.
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Adam Biran is a lecturer in the Environmental Health Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a social scientist working on household environmental health in low income settings. He has a particular interest in social marketing and behaviour change interventions. He has over 10 years experience of consultancy, research and applied work in household environmental health and health promotion and has led assignments in Bangladesh, China, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Russia, Tajikistan, Tanzania and Uganda. For six months he was acting associate director of resource centre providing information and technical support to the UK government Department for International Development. Other clients have included World Bank, UNICEF, WHO, Concern and The International Rescue Committee.
Adam's work in relation to household energy has included a study of wood collection by women and girls among Maasai pastoralists in Tanzania and a review of the evidence for an effect of smoke from indoor cooking in preventing malaria. He has also worked extensively on behavioural aspects of hygiene and sanitation.
Jonathan is the director of The Biodiversity Consultancy (TBC). He is a qualified ecologist with over 12 years of experience in international biodiversity conservation, including community conservation programmes and IUCN red data book research. He has managed several biodiversity projects in East Africa, South and South-east Asia, the Pacific and Madagascar, including several collaborative conservation initiatives between government departments, local communities and NGOs. Applying this experience to business and development issues, his current areas of interest and work include biodiversity offsets, monitoring systems, risk assessment, and the management of secondary impacts using cross-sector partnerships. He has had a close involvement in the design and implementation of the Rio Tinto biodiversity strategy.
TBC and HED Consulting are exploring opportunities to work together through the Climate, Carbon & Biodiversity projects.